Hermes Agent Docs

What Hermes Agent Docs does

The README works as a long reference rather than a short intro. It presents Hermes Agent as an autonomous agent with a built-in learning loop that creates skills from experience, improves them during use and searches past conversations for context. It names the agent core (AIAgent in run_agent.py), tool execution through a ThreadPoolExecutor with up to 8 parallel workers, SQLite storage for memory, skills and sessions, and the ways to run it: a CLI with an Ink-based TUI through hermes --tui, a messaging gateway, IDE integration through ACP, and an OpenAI-compatible /v1/chat/completions server.

It also covers the closed learning loop, including MEMORY.md memory, pluggable memory providers such as Honcho, autonomous skill creation, skill self-improvement, the hermes curator command and FTS5 session search. The gateway section lists platforms such as Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, Matrix and Microsoft Teams. The README gives the current version as v0.14.0 (v2026.5.16), released May 16, 2026, while the repository description still says v0.2.0.

Key features

• Overview of the AIAgent core shared by the CLI, gateway, ACP server and cron scheduler
• Explanation of the learning loop: memory, skill creation, curator and FTS5 session search
• List of messaging gateway platforms and their streaming behavior
• Notes on the OpenAI-compatible API server and IDE integration through ACP
• Version-tagged feature notes such as streaming in v0.3.0

When to use it

• Getting a single written overview of Hermes Agent before installing it
• Checking which messaging platforms the gateway supports
• Learning how Hermes memory, skills and the curator fit together

Who it is for: Developers evaluating or learning Hermes Agent who want one written overview of its architecture and features.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

Documentation about Hermes Agent itself, written by a community author rather than by Nous Research.

Note: This is community-written documentation rather than an official Nous Research resource, and the repository has no license file.

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